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Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 41 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Fortunately when they killed the podcasts out of Google Play Music I switched to Podcast Addict and never looked back.

I honestly feel bad for the guys assigned to work on this dead-end project.

And considering the buggy, infuriating mess that YTM is and that team is being rewarded with expanded scope, I wonder what dirt they have on Sundar.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Okay, it isn't just me who find YTM buggy.

    As a music player, could it please play music? Jesus.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean GPM was buggy too, but it was just unstable and slow. YTM just has boneheaded bugs. I've started running wearing a WearOS watch and it can't even list more than 100 albums in my library, so I can't download any albums alphabetically after Love Songs Drug Songs by the X Ambassadors.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I had a fun bug for awhile on GPM were playing my library on shuffle it would mostly play songs that started with P. A 30 minute car ride would have 3 songs that started with P and the other 5-6 would be more random.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I have 4 people that use it on my account, it plays music just fine. Makes playlists, finds similar artist, View artist/album on long press, add to current list now or at the end, etc...

    Actually has some interesting and unique features (like I can add stuff from youtube app or desktop even to a playlist and it will be in the playlist on TYM later on.)

    What does it not do for you?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    For starters, it won't stop raping my data with video plays and downloads, even though I tell it not to do anything without wifi.

    It also seems to 'shuffle' the same newest 40 songs or so, out of my 1000s of liked songs. Could never understand why, I just want random not algorithm random.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    If I am on a 20 minutes drive I need the damn thing to keep playing music for 20 minutes, not just randomly stop playing halfway through a song. YTM does that. Spotify doesn't. Nor does my other background players.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Which bugs have you got? I don't remember any issue, that said the Spotify apps are much better.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Music would randomly stop playing. I can just continue it, no error or warning. Spotify doesn't do that, nor does other background media players.

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